River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-04-28

For God aud Home and NatiUe Land.
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The Union Signal five weeks for 10
cts.
A WoMAN's TAcT.-Mrs. Leslie, in her
published recollectiOns of her mother,
Mrs. Lyman, gives this instance of the
elder lady's ingenuity and kindness;
A death had occurred in an Irish
family. Everybody crowded TO see
the body, and there was danger that
the living might suffer from their
demonstrations of regard for the dead
But the mourners were sensitive, and
to have suggested disinfectants would
have given mortal ofliense. Mrs. Ly-
man sent over plate of chloride of
lime. covered Nth fogerS. TO be placed
on the coffin. Everybody was pleased
and grateful. No one suspected the
sanitary purpose.
That woman was wise enough to
vote. Half the art of a statesmen con-
sists in the power to make wholesome
measures palatable, and to cover nee
essary reforms with flowers which
shall make them acceptable without
destroying their efficiency. Alice
Stone Blackwell.
1t looks as though 'the good time
coming" has nearly come when we
find in the Topeka Capitol an item like
the following:
"The Republicans of the fourth ward
met last evening at the court house for
the purpose of making nominations for
councilmen and members of the school
board. There were about three hun
dred Republicans present, nearly one
half of whom were ladies, including
some of the most cultured and refined
ladies of the ward. ="
THE BEST WOMEN" The best rom
Then they are not truly the best wom-
en-. Women who are really conscien-
tious will not shirk their duty when
the time comes, depend upon it. The
complaint has been, in Massachusetts,,
under the school suffrage law, that
only the best women have voted. 1t
is very hard to satisfy ones opponents.
IT. w. Higginson.
"0ur schools and colleges will remain
imperative and fail to elevate the
people so long as the schools of vice
and crime-the drinking shOps-are
allowed on every hand. For the drink
shops not only close the doors of our
schools against the children, but they
destroy much of the good produced by
the schools by deadening the intellects
of our citizens and rendering education
and knowledge that has been acquired
useless.
We may build our schOol-houses on
the most improved style of architect
ure and place in them the best teachers
that the highest salary can command;
and, when all is done, we shall fail to
educate or produce citizens that are in
dustrious, intelligent, honest and virtu-
Gus, so long as the other System of educa-
tionis allowed to exist, and the law
sanctions and allows the schools of i'm
morality and vice to stand side by side
with our free schools and colleges.
What egresious folly for grave legis.
lators to enact one law to educate our
children in science, knowledge and
virtue, and another to undermine and
destroy the benefits of the first. Why
should we take such pains and go to so
much expense to do good, and then at
much more expense to undo the good
done"
The liquor traffic throws temptations
in the way of old and young, and prop
ogates ungodliness, crime and sin.
There is nothing known in the whole
realm of science that possesses the
power 20 degrade and demOralize hui
man beings like alcohol. Its essential
properties and nature are such as to
carry its victims beyond and out of the
reach of all good influences.
In this power it stands alone. The
use of strong drink tends to destroy
every personal, social. and religious
virtue. None are safe who tamper
with it. As the poet has said;
1--WE are not worse at once:
The course of evil begins so slowly,
And from such slight source,
An infants hand
Might stop the breach with clay,
But let the stream grow wider and. philOs-
ophy,
Aye and religion too, may strive In vain,
To stem the headloug current"
-lWilliam Hargreaves, NJ. d.